“Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.”
— Elbert Hubbard
If you were to rate your mornings, how good would they be? Would your mornings be the great, motivating and inspiring part of the day, or the part which clutters your mind and makes you feel confused and powerless?
Of course, everyone wants their mornings to be joyous, but most people are doing things which can turn mornings into an experience with the opposite effect. And they end up starting the day with an uninspiring, gloomy feeling.
What degrades the mind from its morning freshness is reading the news. News filled with useless facts, badly written opinions and (sometimes seductive) advertising. There is plenty of time later in the day to load up with useless information that we must deal with in order to survive in this imperfect world. Why sacrifice a fresh mind for it.
In the morning all is cool, clean and quiet (at least relatively). If you wake up early enough, the world is asleep and the universe is yours. That feeling, the feeling of freshness, has a great potential to motivate, inspire, improve. It can result in great ideas, it can solve problems, it can teach you and give new meaning to things.
In the morning you should meditate, read a good book that stimulates you, have a delicious breakfast, enjoy the calmness of the world, listen to some good music that makes you feel good. Arrange your life to achieve the maximum quality of morning time, and you will be rewarded with a better future.
My morning was great. How did your morning make you feel?
photography by the Happy Jumper!
